He then derided the "phony Trump/Russia story" as an "excuse" Democrats came up with to explain losing the presidential election. Could it not be, he wondered over Twitter at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday night, that "Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?"

...Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?

"I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me, but got scared off," the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said at the Women for Women International Luncheon, during a conversation with Christiane Amanpour.